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Or. Karr Shannon Jr.
Funeral
For Doctor
Is Monday
Dr. Karr Shannon Jr., 47,
former head of psychiatry at
Confederate Memorial Medical
Center, died Saturday at 5 a.m.
at Schumpert Medical Center
after a massive cerebral
hemorrhage.
Dr. Shannon, who resided at
813 River Road, suffered the
hemorrhage Friday morning. .
He had served as acting
head of the LSU School at,
Medicine in Shreveport in 1972
and as chief of psychiatry ser-vices
at the Veterans Ad-ministration
Hospital her*
from 1959 to 1963.
A vigil service will be held
today at 7:30 p.m. at Osboro
Funeral Home. Funeral ser-vices
will be held Monday at
11:30 a.m. at the Osborn
Chapel with the Rev. John R.
Welsh, rector of Jesuit High
School, officiating. Burial will
be in Forest Park Cemetery.
A native of Melbourne, Ark.,
he was an associate professor
of psychiatry at the Schtoi of
Medicine, chairman of the
board of trustees of Brentwood
Hospital, executive director of
t h e Academy of
Psychosomatic Medicine and
a member of the Louisiana
Commission on Alcoholism,
the Louisiana Advisory Coun-cil
on Mental Health, the ad-visory
council of the Louisiana
Areawide Health Planning
Council.
He received his bachelor
degree from the University of
Arkansas and his medical
degree from the University of
Arkansas School of Medicine.
Dr. Shannon's internship
was at Madigan General
Hospital in Tacoma, Wash.,
and his residency was at the
Arkansas State Hospital in
Little Rock, Ark., and the
Veterans Administration
Hospital at North Little Rock.

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Or. Karr Shannon Jr.
Funeral
For Doctor
Is Monday
Dr. Karr Shannon Jr., 47,
former head of psychiatry at
Confederate Memorial Medical
Center, died Saturday at 5 a.m.
at Schumpert Medical Center
after a massive cerebral
hemorrhage.
Dr. Shannon, who resided at
813 River Road, suffered the
hemorrhage Friday morning. .
He had served as acting
head of the LSU School at,
Medicine in Shreveport in 1972
and as chief of psychiatry ser-vices
at the Veterans Ad-ministration
Hospital her*
from 1959 to 1963.
A vigil service will be held
today at 7:30 p.m. at Osboro
Funeral Home. Funeral ser-vices
will be held Monday at
11:30 a.m. at the Osborn
Chapel with the Rev. John R.
Welsh, rector of Jesuit High
School, officiating. Burial will
be in Forest Park Cemetery.
A native of Melbourne, Ark.,
he was an associate professor
of psychiatry at the Schtoi of
Medicine, chairman of the
board of trustees of Brentwood
Hospital, executive director of
t h e Academy of
Psychosomatic Medicine and
a member of the Louisiana
Commission on Alcoholism,
the Louisiana Advisory Coun-cil
on Mental Health, the ad-visory
council of the Louisiana
Areawide Health Planning
Council.
He received his bachelor
degree from the University of
Arkansas and his medical
degree from the University of
Arkansas School of Medicine.
Dr. Shannon's internship
was at Madigan General
Hospital in Tacoma, Wash.,
and his residency was at the
Arkansas State Hospital in
Little Rock, Ark., and the
Veterans Administration
Hospital at North Little Rock.